Infrastructure Engineer - 1814

PlacingIT; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

PlacingIT is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Foundation team in Palo Alto. You will design, build, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure and improve deployment pipelines to keep our platform reliable and scalable.

The role requires 1–4 years of software engineering, strong TypeScript skills, and experience with cloud infrastructure and backend systems. You will mentor peers and help drive best practices across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of Software Engineering experience and hands-on infra work.
• Experience contributing to core infrastructure or platform engineering initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and at least one additional backend language.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and scalable backend design.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and security.
• Build tools and automation that increase engineering productivity.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and developer workflows.
• Monitor production systems and proactively improve system health and performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions to prevent future incidents.
• Partner with software engineers to improve infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, infrastructure design, and engineering best practices.

Skills

TypeScript

Backend development

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Caching technologies

Event-driven architectures

System reliability

Troubleshooting

Tools

AWS

GraphQL

Honeycomb

GitHub Codespaces

Temporal.io

Graphite

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $140,000 – $250,000 Base Salary + Equity Target candidates within a $30K–$40K salary range based on experience.

About the Role

We're looking for Infrastructure Engineers to join our Foundation team and help build the systems that keep our platform secure, reliable, and highly scalable.

This team owns the infrastructure that powers a mission-critical platform where uptime, performance, and developer productivity are essential. You'll design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure while improving deployment pipelines, observability, and platform reliability.

Your primary customers are the engineering teams. By making development faster, deployments safer, and systems more resilient, you'll directly impact the speed and quality of software delivery across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and security.
• Build tools and automation that increase engineering productivity.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and developer workflows.
• Monitor production systems and proactively improve system health and performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions to prevent future incidents.
• Partner with software engineers to improve infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, infrastructure design, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Required Qualifications

• 1–4 years of Software Engineering experience.
• Experience contributing to core infrastructure or platform engineering initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and at least one additional backend programming language.
• Experience building or supporting scalable backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Distributed systems
  • Caching technologies
  • System integrations
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Scaling production applications
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or database infrastructure.
• Experience building or supporting microservices.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security and system architecture.
• Experience with VPN administration or cloud networking.
• Personal engineering projects, open-source contributions, or active involvement in the engineering community.

Experience with many of the following technologies is preferred:

• AWS
• TypeScript
• GraphQL
• Honeycomb
• GitHub Codespaces
• Temporal.io
• Graphite
• Modern CI/CD tooling

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is passionate about infrastructure, enjoys solving complex technical problems, and thrives in collaborative engineering environments.

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

• Strong ownership mentality.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for building reliable, scalable systems.
• Interest in improving developer experience and engineering productivity.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Curiosity and a desire to continuously learn new technologies.

Candidates Unlikely to Be a Fit

The following backgrounds generally do not align with this opportunity:

• Engineers who have remained focused on a single language or technology stack without expanding their technical breadth.
• Candidates with limited experience supporting production infrastructure or scalable backend systems.
• Engineers who prefer working independently with minimal cross-functional collaboration.
• Candidates without experience in cloud infrastructure, backend systems, or platform engineering.